Re: Mandrake patched perl-GTK2 in a bad direction?

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

[sorry to break threading; my mail host appears to be having problems  
and eating messages.]

Péter said:
> I've got this letter from a tester of one of my program - who uses  
> perl-GTK2
> and the needed modules from CPAN:

> > the line:
> >     $splash_win{label} = new Gtk2::Label(_("Loading GPRS Easy  
> > Connect"));
> > become:
> >    $splash_win{label} = new Gtk2::Label("Loading GPRS Easy Connect");
>
> I used at first Glade(1) for the design and after I rewrited the code  
> to GTK2,
> maybe the GTK2 doesn't like the underline character in this case?

_() is typically an internationalization function, which looks up  
strings in a language database and returns the one for the current  
language setting.  This is not part of gtk2-perl, and i can't find  
anything in mandrake's rpm patches that add it.  Perhaps you need to  
use the Gettext module?


> 2, He wrote me this too:
>
> > I think set_uposition was removed from Gtk2-perl, but the Mandrake's
> > version has some patch for backward compatibility.
> > I think using set_uposition it will work only with Mandrake!
> > I'm using Glib, Gtk2 and Gnome2 from CPAN!
>
> Is he right??? I'm using Mandrake now while making my program and  
> there wasn't
> chance to test under other distrib. Do I have to rewrite all code  
> using VBOX
> and HBOX????

Patch9 in the mandrake RPM adds the deprecated function  
gtk_widget_set_uposition().  This was deprecated as of gtk+ 2.0.0 and  
therefore is not part of gtk2-perl.

http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/GtkWidget.html#gtk-widget- 
set-uposition

I don't recall why the mandrake rpms include it (Thierry?), but i  
believe it was part of porting old code.


The Gtk-Perl to Gtk2-Perl porting guide (  
http://gtk2-perl.sourceforge.net/doc/porting.html ) says:

> Gtk::Widget::set_uposition() has been deprecated and is not bound  
> anymore; use Gtk2::Window::move(), Gtk2::Fixed::put(), or  
> Gtk2::Layout::put() instead.

You imply that you're not using HBox or VBox, so i presume you're doing  
manual layout with a Gtk2::Fixed, so i think Gtk2::Fixed::put() is what  
you want.


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